“When Humans Leave”: 20 Abandoned Places Reclaimed By Nature

Published 12 months ago

There was a sinkhole discovered in China in 1994 called ‘Heavenly Pit’ that remains untouched by humans. It’s apparently home to flora and fauna such as the ‘gingko and clouded leopard’, which were otherwise considered extinct or extremely rare.

This just goes to show that when humans don’t pillage and plunder the Earth, nature recovers and comes back to claim what was hers. The Twitter account, ‘When Humans Leave’, gives us a glimpse of the profound power of Mother Earth. Sharing photos of forgotten cities and decrepit buildings taken over by lush greenery and enveloped in overflowing vines, the images live up to the bio of the account, ‘when humans leave, nature starts to take back’. Scroll below to check out some of their most amazing captures of nature’s resurgence.

More info: BBC | Twitter

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Shanilou Perera

Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.

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